{"id":694,"date":"2010-04-07T22:27:01","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T22:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=694"},"modified":"2024-01-21T18:53:14","modified_gmt":"2024-01-21T23:53:14","slug":"klasky_wish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2010\/04\/klasky_wish\/","title":{"rendered":"Klasky, Mindy: <cite>How Not to Make a Wish<\/cite>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think I must&#8217;ve heard about <strong>Mindy Klasky&#8217;s <cite>How Not to Make a Wish<\/cite><\/strong> from <a href=\"http:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/2009\/10\/01\/the-big-idea-mindy-klasky\/\">a Big Idea post at Whatever<\/a>. It sounded like light fun, so I put it on my list of things to look for and eventually read it.<\/p>\n<p>It does have very nice theater stuff that is amusing and feels quite real. And if only it hadn&#8217;t involved completely removing genies from their cultural context, I might have liked the concept of them as civil servants who are pressured to grant wishes in a timely fashion. But it uses Western standards of feminine beauty in a way I strongly object to, and its plot rests on a glaring inconsistency and a random, nonsensical revelation. It might have been a fast read, but I still regret the time I spent on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I must&#8217;ve heard about Mindy Klasky&#8217;s How Not to Make a Wish from a Big Idea post at Whatever. It sounded like light fun, so I put it on my list of things to look for and eventually read it. It does have very nice theater stuff that is amusing and feels quite &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2010\/04\/klasky_wish\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Klasky, Mindy: <cite>How Not to Make a Wish<\/cite>&#8220;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,15],"tags":[271],"class_list":["post-694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-sf-and-fantasy","tag-klasky-mindy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2528,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions\/2528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}